My family, friends and even neighbors act like my house is the local video store. I don't really mind them borrowing them but I have had problems with people not returning them. Dog Soldiers is a perfect example, I've had to replace it twice and no longer let anyone take it.

Do you let people borrow your movies? If so, do you give them a time limit to bring them back?

I don't give a time limit but am thinking about it. A certain neighbor borrows 4 or 5 at a time and I end up having to go ask for them back weeks later. I'm not letting her borrow anymore.

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There's no worse feeling than that millisecond you're sure you are going to die after leaning your chair back a little too far~ ruminations

Let's be honest--no one wants to borrow the kind of movies I have on my shelf.

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"Clive [Barker]'s idea of a great time is to have a nightmare about a woman with three heads and no skin who flays your body with a pitchfork. To give you some idea, NIGHTBREED has over 200 pus monsters, including one guy with a crescent moonhead like the McDonald's commercial and a fat guy with snakes that pop out of his stomach and eat your face off, and these are the GOOD GUYS. These are the people we're supposed to LIKE."-Joe Bob on NIGHTBREED

No, I have not had good experiences with borrowing. One person kept a VHS set for so long that when I asked for it back, she thought it belonged to someone else. I had to convince her it was mine. Another guy borrowed a movie, then thanked me for giving it to him.

Once in a great while my mom might like to borrow a movie. I've got a lot of crap but also some classics. She's very good at returning them. Shoot, that reminds me.. I still have Romper Stomper that I need to get back to my brother.

Yes. I'm at a point where I don't give a s**t anymore, and belief me I had it all:

discs being not returneddiscs being scratched so baldy you couldn't play them anymorediscs which where stolen by a third partydiscs being sold by the person I gave themdiscs being never returnedand of course the classic where you have to ask for weeks to get your own s**t back.

But in the end it comes down to who wants to lend one, I wouldn't give them to anyone, anymore.

My movies are my babiez, if anyone can understand that.I spend, what, $5-$20 PER movie and what if they get broken, severally scratched, or never returned? If people want to borrow my movies, I charge $2.50 per movie initially, plus $5 per night. This ain't no free video rental store, man.

I do my best to avoid lending my movies (although, I do let my parents borrow them from time to time because I see them almost every week and I know I'll get them back). I let a buddy of mine borrow 2 DVDs several years ago and it took more than a year for me to get them back. It was mostly because I only see him a few times a year and he forgot to bring them the few times we got together. Eventually I got them back and they were in perfect condition. The best way to avoid lending out DVDs is to offer to have people come to your house to watch them. I treat my DVDs like other people treat coin collections, stamps, comic books, baseball cards or whatever. Most people just don't lend those things out. I just explain that to people and I usually don't have a problem.

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"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

I'll let my brother or parents borrow stuff because they're all very careful, but generally I'd say no. I'm really obsessive about the condition of my stuff if I buy it new, and I always get movies back with some light scratches or finger prints all over 'em. I am baffled by how careless people are when handling stuff. Oh, and I loaned out a copy of The Story of Ricky to a friend and his dog destroyed it. He paid me back for it, though.

Also, I'm a bad person to loan stuff to. I either take forever to watched what I've borrowed or I forget that I have it.